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Folk Art For Sale
Place of Origin: British
Place of Origin: Scottish
Portrait of a Lady
Located in Kingsbridge, GB
Primitive Folk Art Painting of a Lady. The painting is quite interesting, as there appears to be a substantial country house that appears to be burning down in the background. Whet...
Category
1850s English Primitive Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paint
$1,300
Early 20th Century Kodak Advertising Enamel Sign, English, For Train Rides
Located in Crespières, FR
This antique Kodak advertising sign is made of thick enamel in black, yellow and red colours.
The colours are bright and shiny, with an good relief.
The condition is fairly good co...
Category
1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$1,329 Sale Price
20% Off
Arts
Crafts Edwardian Hand-Crafted Patinated Copper Lidded Communion Chalice
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Arts & Crafts with Gothic elements Edwardian hand crafted patinated copper lidded communion chalice dating from the early 20th Century...
Category
Early 1900s British Arts and Crafts Antique Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Victorian Era Gilded Metal Wedding Pin Cushion, C.1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victorian era gilded metal wedding pin cushion, C.1900
Hand made twisted and gilded sheet metal chair pin cushion
Wedding cushions were in high style ...
Category
Early 20th Century English High Victorian Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Collectible Hand Carved Vintage Wood Rococo Gilt Wall Hangar
Located in Lomita, CA
Beautiful gilt touches and an intricate carved theme with griffins and other mythical creatures from heraldry make this wall hangar reminiscent of a dramatic opening from Game of Thr...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand Built Sculptural Wood Fired Twin Handled Signed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A truly wonderful design piece, and one of my favourite pieces, is this hand-built wood fired twin handled studio pottery vase of sculptural form dating from the 20th century. The st...
Category
20th Century British Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
British Sailor
s Large Woolwork of HMS Brunswick
Located in Downingtown, PA
An Icon of Steam and Sail: Sailor J.H. Miller's Woolwork of HMS Brunswick
Circa 1860
This monumental and intricately crafted woolwork, a testament to the folk art tradition of 19th-...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wool
End 19th century Large Nautical Mahogany Rudder with Eight Spokes Bronze Hub UK
Located in Milan, IT
Large mahogany rudder with eight spokes with bronze hub. English manufacture of the end of the 19th century. Diameter 130 cm - inches 51.2, depth 15 cm - inches 5.9.
There are evidences showing that already in the third millennium BC, in ancient Egypt, people used wooden oars...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
William Illsley
British, b.1948
Studio Pottery BLue Glazed Bowl with Snake
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish English studio pottery bowl decorated in blue glazes with a trailing snake design by William Illesley (British, b.1948) and made at hi...
Category
20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
19th Century Unique Folk Art Guernsey Shell Diorama Display
Located in London, GB
19th century unique Folk Art Guernsey shell diorama display
We are proud to offer a unique folk-art hand-crafted example of a seashell diorama. Display...
Category
1880s British Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Antique English Georgian Brass Candle stick holders decorative interior décor
Located in London, GB
Antique English Georgian Brass Candle stick holders
A elegant English Georgian small size with waisted detail
Nice aged patina
very good cond...
Category
19th Century English Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass
$267 Sale Price
40% Off
Set of Six Matching 19th Century Adams Rose Cups and Saucers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These amazing 19th century hand-painted cups and saucers are signed England and in pristine condition. The set of six matching six plates that we also have in stock. These are all in...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Country Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Peter Hayes Mother and Child Raku Fired Studio Pottery Sculpture
By Peter Hayes
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish studio pottery sculpture titled Mother and Child by renowned potter Peter Hayes and made around 1996. The sculpture is mounted on a rectangular slate base and is abstr...
Category
Late 20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Tile Titled Nude
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine and unique, fresh to market, stoneware studio pottery tile shaped panel hand painted with a rear profile of a walking female nude titled Nude by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon...
Category
Early 2000s English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Circa 1920
s English Riding Crop
Located in High Point, NC
Circa 1920's hickory riding crop from England. The handle is made from bone, which has been artfully cross-hatched for added design interest. The handle is attached to the crop by ...
Category
1920s English Edwardian Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Bone, Leather, Hickory
Late 19th Century English Folk Art Articulated Jig Doll
Located in London, GB
Late 19th century English Jig Doll
A wonderful example of a late 19th century English jig doll called porkpie. A fully articulated hand carved feature. With amazing leather handcrafted boots and wearing a porkpie hat. A lovely example with wear and patination in all the right areas. Jig dolls are traditional wooden or tin-plate toys for adults or children. They are dolls with loose limbs that step dance...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Pine, Paint
Alabaster Crucifixion from a Retable of the Passion
Located in London, GB
A Very Fine Carved Relief of the Crucifixion
Alabaster
Circa 1450 - 1470
Nottingham, Midlands, England
Size: 49.5cm high, 26.5cm wide, 5cm deep - 19½ ins high, 10½ ins wide, 2 ins ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier English Antique Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
Shagreen etui case, London circa 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine English Etui Case with original period fitting. The etui is carved in fruitwood and covered in a dark grey shagreen (Pastinachus sephen, Forrskål 1775) covering. It opens by pushing the button on the side. Finished in silver, the inner grid shows a series of cut-out seats for the insertion of the fitting, which includes a pencil, one bodkin, an ear pick...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
19th Century English Folk Art Tree Form Painted Heads
Located in London, GB
19th Century English Folk Art Tree Form Painted Heads
An unusual pair of late 19th Century English folk art painted natural wooden form figures. We hav...
Category
1890s British Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Derek Clarkson Brush Decorated Porcelain Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A good and finely made studio pottery stoneware bottle vase of small size decorated with a repeat brush pattern of stylized insect like designs by Derek Clarkson...
Category
1970s English Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Santa Claus Cast Iron Nutcracker, circa 1880s
Located in Incline Village, NV
This copper-plated cast iron Santa Claus nutcracker was manufactured in England, circa 1880s. It pivots on an iron pin. The face is very finely cast de...
Category
1880s English Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Brampton Rare Salt Glazed Stoneware Character Modelled Container
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming unusual and very rare antique English Brampton salt glazed container modelled as gentleman wearing a coat dating from around 1830. The stoneware container is a half-length...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Chelsea Pottery Studio Pottery Figural Courtroom Scene
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish and unusual studio pottery model of a Courtroom scene by Chelsea Pottery, London and dating from the 20th century. The courtroom is modeled a...
Category
20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Early 20th Century English Fairground Carousel Boards
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century English Fairground Carousel Boards
A matched pair of early 20th century hand crafted pine English fairground carousel boards, that would have been part of a larg...
Category
1920s British Folk Art Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Silver Mounted Thirteen Grotesque Faces Molded Glazed Pottery Mug
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very unusual Aesthetic Movement art pottery silver mounted mug modeled in relief with thirteen grotesque faces and dating from around 1880. The finely...
Category
1880s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
John Cole Rye Pottery Brown Glazed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
Early Rye Pottery individual brown glazed studio pottery vase by John Cole (British, 1908-88) and made around 1947. The heavily made stoneware vase is of w...
Category
1940s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Hand Built Sculptural Wood Fired Gourd Shaped Signed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A truly wonderful design piece, and one of my favorite pieces, is this hand-built wood fired gourd shaped studio pottery bottle vase of sculptural form dating from the 20th century. ...
Category
20th Century British Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Ian Rylatt Four Stylish Studio Pottery Coffee Cups
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning set of four stylish studio pottery coffee cups designed and made by Welsh based potter Ian Rylatt believed to date from the latter 20th Century.
Ian Rylatt was born in L...
Category
Late 20th Century British Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Victorian Press - Mahogany
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful small antique press, made of mahogany wood.
The press was used as a hobby, for example for pressing flowers, for example for making herbariums, a popular hobby at the end...
Category
1870s British Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Brampton English Rare Large Salt Glazed Thatched Cottage Table Jug
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual antique English large salt glazed stoneware jug modelled a a thatched cottage by Brampton and dating from around 1820. The six sided jug stands raised on a molded ...
Category
1820s English George III Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Grasshopper
Located in Greenwich, CT
A grasshopper weathervane with body of pitted iron rotating on vertical rod with N E W S directionals below, now on wooden box stand with one side removable. The grasshopper was the ...
Category
1930s English Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Iron
$15,500
Karen Ann Wood Studio Pottery Red Glazed Spot Design Lidded Teapot
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine and stylish English studio pottery teapot and cover decorated in red glazes with blue spot designs by Kent based potter Karen Ann Woo...
Category
1970s English Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
English Pub Sign, "Worth Brewery - The Cricketer
s Arms"
Located in Austin, TX
An authentic English pub sign (one-sided) featuring a painting of a cricket player with bat and ball, entitled: Worth Brewery - The Cricketer's Arms.
A very fine example of vintage ...
Category
20th Century English Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Late Georgian Rare Tunbridgeware Wood and Silk Sewing Basket
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare late Georgian or early Regency Tunbridgeware sewing basket dating from 1820-1930. The inner basket has a rounded base with a stacked block design in various colored woods with...
Category
1830s English George III Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
English Victorian Wood Cane with Sundial
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian style dark wood cane with swirl top that opens to reveal a sundial and compass interior with a brass bottom tip
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass
English White Porcelain Glove Forms
Located in Queens, NY
3 English (1920s) white porcelain glove forms (PRICED EACH)
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Folk Art
$350 / item
English Victorian Papier-Mache Fan
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian papier mache and pearl inlaid fan
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Folk Art
Ann
John Farquharson Studio Pottery Sculptural Bison Figure
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish sculptural Studio Pottery of a bison made by Ann & John Farquharson and dating to the later 20th or early 21st century. The standing figure is hand formed with piped clay t...
Category
Late 20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Hand Built Sculptural Wood Fired Twin Handled Signed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A truly wonderful design piece, and one of my favourite pieces, is this hand-built wood fired twin handled studio pottery vase of sculptural form dating from the 20th century. The st...
Category
20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Experimental Glazed Cup 2006
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware cup decorated in experimental glazes by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 2006.
Trai...
Category
Early 2000s English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Alan Wallwork Studio Pottery Split Pod Sculpture
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
Stoneware studio pottery 'split pod' form designed by Alan Wallwork (British, 1931-2019) and dating from around 1980. The heavily made sculptural pod sta...
Category
1980s English Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
English fairground panel
Located in London, GB
English fairground panel
We share what we love, and we love this very well carved turn off the century fairground rounders panel/frieze, depicting a...
Category
19th Century British Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$4,100
Victorian Unusual Hand Sculpted Leather Lioness Figure
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish and unusual Victorian hand sculpted pressed leather figure of a lioness dating from the latter 19th century. The figure is beautifully made and portrays a prowling lioness ...
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Leather
Art Deco Folkart Pair Oak Hand Carved Figural Bookends
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very unusual Art Deco folkart pair of hand carved oak bookends with figures dating from around 1930. The bookends have been carved from a single block of wood with a flat polished book...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Oak
Early 20th Century English Ventriloquist Dummy
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century English Ventriloquist Dummy
An unusual example of a hand-crafted early 20th Century English ventriloquist dummy. With tailored made velour outfit with pearl but...
Category
1920s British Folk Art Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Cotton, Velvet, Wood, Paper
Mark Griffiths Large Twin Handled Studio Pottery Vase with Grasses
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish English large twin handled studio vase decorated with wheat like grass stems by Shropshire based potter Mark Griffiths (British b.1956) and dating from the 1970’s. The...
Category
20th Century British Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
"Toby" Jug Still Bank and Biscuit Tin, circa 1910
Located in Incline Village, NV
This is both a still bank and a biscuit tin. It would originally have been sold, filled with biscuits. After all of the cookies would have been consumed, the tin (rather than been thrown away) would have been used as a bank to save money. There is a slot for deposits at the back of the neck at the top (see image). Coins would have been removed by lifting or twisting the snug fitting lid. Toby is nicely hand-painted in pleasing colors of green, blue, gold, and white, with realistic flesh tones to the hands and face. The total height is 6 1/2" while the total width is 6" (includes handle). Diameter at the base is 5".
This Toby figured tin was manufactured circa 1911 by the biscuit tin company of Hudson Scott located in Carlisle, England.
It is marked at the bottom "Hudson Scott & Sons Ltd. Carlisle, England."
It has crossover appeal into three categories of collectors. It would be a welcome addition to both the still bank collector and the biscuit tin collector...
Category
1910s English Folk Art Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Large Antique English Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Model of a Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A late 18th or early 19th century English Prattware baby's cradle in a rare large size.
Decorated with an overall basket weave pattern and a yello...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Experimental Glazed Cup, 2006
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware cup decorated in experimental glazes by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 2006.
Trai...
Category
Early 2000s English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Experimental Glazed Cup, 2006
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware cup decorated in experimental glazes by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 2006. Trained ...
Category
Early 2000s English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
English Regency Mahogany Marble Top Console, Circa 1790
Located in Charleston, SC
English Regency mahogany marble-top console with flanking Phoenix heads, original ormolu mounts, ebonized tapered legs, centered gilt urn and terminating on rectangular molded edge b...
Category
1790s English Regency Antique Folk Art
Materials
Marble, Gold
Warwick Parker English Salt Glazed Studio Pottery Bottle Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine quality salt glazed studio pottery bottle flagon shaped vase by Dorset based potter Warwick Parker (b.1940) dating from the 20th century. Th...
Category
20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Georgian Pontypool Welsh Attributed Toleware Black Japanned Bread Basket
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine quality large Georgian toleware black japanned bread basket with floral and a bird design probably Pontypool, Wales and dating from aroun...
Category
1810s Welsh Georgian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Eric James Mellon Hand-Crafted Studio Pottery Head Sculpture Dated 1963
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual studio pottery head sculpted by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 1963. Trained at the Central S...
Category
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Arts
Crafts Copper Handled Chestnut Roaster c.1890
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Arts & Crafts hand crafted handled copper chestnut roaster dating from around 1890. The chestnut roaster has a hammered and pier...
Category
1890s British Arts and Crafts Antique Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Alexander Lauder Sgraffito Art Pottery Handled Bird Vase
By Alexander Lauder Barum
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning three handled art pottery sgraffito pattern vase decorated with two birds perched on oak tree branches by Alexander Lauder, Barnstaple dating from around 1890. This qualit...
Category
Late 19th Century English Art Nouveau Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
David Leach Vertical Line Design Large Studio Pottery Vase
By David Leach
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine and unusual large studio pottery vase of tapering waisted form with contrasting vertical stripes on dark brown ground by David Leach (1911-2005) and probably made in the early...
Category
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Richard Chapman English Hand Turned And Stained Oak Wood Vase
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine English hand crafted large turned and carved oak wood vase by Richard Chapman (b.1951) and dating from the 20th century. The large bottle shaped...
Category
1990s English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Oak
Vintage Limited Edition Art Print, Venice Canal, Framed, William Russell Flint
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage limited edition art print of Venice. An English, framed painting titled 'Palazzo on The Grand Canal' by Sir William Russell Flint, dating to the late 20th ce...
Category
Late 20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Neal French Terracotta Sculptural Standing Lady Figurine
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish terracotta sculptural figure of a lady by renowned sculptor Neal French dating from the latter 20th Century. The figure stands mounted on a wooden base and is simply modeled and in slight abstract wearing a long flowing dress with a matt terracotta colored finish. Neal French graduated from the Royal College of Art in London and worked for fifteen years as a designer, modeller and sculptor for Spode and Worcester Royal Porcelain Co. He then spent 20 years teaching at Hornsey College of Art and also did some work at Rye Pottery...
Category
Late 20th Century English Modern Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Vintage, New and Antique Folk Art
Folk art refers to a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Vintage, new and antique folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, portraiture and paintings, carnival art, quilts and duck decoys.
American folk art is frequently valued because of the traditional skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.
During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.
Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of folk art on 1stDibs.
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